100 Great Quotes About Life And Living (6th Edition)

1) “Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

2) “Love is always creative, fear always destructive.” — Emmet Fox

3) “You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.” — Henry Ford

4) “Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.” — Bruce Lee

5) “Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak; and at last some crisis shows what we have become.” — Brooke Foss Westcott

6) “Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.” –Jose Ortega y Gasset

7) “Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.” — Martin Luther

21) “The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.” — Socrates

22) “Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent’s pressure, and the temporary failures.” — Vince Lombardi

23) “Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.” — Charles Spurgeon

24) “An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.” — Red Auerbach

25) “Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day’s work an achievement for eternity.” — Gabriel Heatter

26) “The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.” — Jim Rohn

27) “Don’t hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.” — Teddy Roosevelt

28) “Not to feel one’s misfortunes is not human, not to bear them is not manly.” — Seneca

29) “Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.” — Publilius Syrus

30) “Arguing with a fool proves there are two.” — Doris M. Smith

31) “Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more.” — Louis L’Amour

32) “A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.” — Henry David Thoreau

33) “‘He means well’ is useless unless he does well.” — Plautus

34) “We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.” — Eric Hoffer

63) “For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required.” — Luke 12:48

64) “Fortune and love favor the brave.” — Ovid

65) “But it shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister; And whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant: Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.” — Matthew 20: 26-28

66) “All happiness depends on courage and work.” — Honoré de Balzac

67) “The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.” — William Faulkner

68) “Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.” — Henri Frederic Amiel

69) “Your talent is God’s gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.” — Leo Buscaglia

70) “Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.” — Og Mandino

71) “The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

72) “A craven can be as brave as any man, when there is nothing to fear. And we all do our duty, when there is no cost to it.” — George Martin

73) “Little by little one walks far.” – Peruvian Proverb

74) “The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.” — William James

75) “All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.” — Reinhold Niebuhr

76) “The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one’s self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.” — Michelangelo

77) “Look and you will find it – what is unsought will go undetected.” — Sophocles

78) “Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying.” — Nikki Giovanni

79) “The gods’ most savage curses come upon us as answers to our own prayers, you know.” — Lois McMaster Bujold